Section 7Part 0 —
If payment fourteen days in arrear distress may issue
←→ Navigate · Click subsection badges to collapse · Press ? for help
Where, under an affiliation order which provides that payment thereunder shall be made to the collecting officer, payment is fourteen clear days in arrear, the court may, upon the application of the collecting officer, issue a warrant directing the sum due under such order or since any commitment for disobedience to such order as hereinafter provided, together with the costs attending such warrant, to be recovered by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the putative father, and if upon the return to such warrant it appears that no sufficient distress can be had, the court may issue a warrant to bring the putative father before it, and in case the putative father neglects or refuses without reasonable cause to pay the sum so due together with such costs, the court may commit him to prison for any period not exceeding three months unless such sum and costs, together with the costs of commitment, be sooner paid.
Where the court commits a putative father to prison under subsection (1), then, unless the court otherwise directs, no arrears shall accrue under the order during the time that the putative father is in prison.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law limiting the time within which summary proceedings are to be taken to six months, such limitation shall not apply to proceedings for enforcing the payment of sums under an order made under this Law.